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Monday, March 20, 2006

UN to Afghan refugees: 'Please don't come home'

Since the Taliban were supposedly toppled in 2001, life in Afghanistan is worse, with the country still dominated by warlords, their militias and the opium trade, and Afghan refugees warned not to return to their homeland.

"IN ONE of the most blunt assessments of post-Taliban life in Afghanistan, a high-ranking United Nations representative has warned refugees not to return home because security is so dire.

The comments came as the fugitive Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, vowed to launch a ferocious offensive against US-led forces."


Meanwhile, in a statement attributed to him, Omar said last week that a stream of young Afghans were volunteering for suicide missions.

Indeed, it looks like a very long, turbulent road ahead toward a functioning country for the Afghanis, and an increasingly dangerous mission for the US-led NATO forces.

Read more in the Sydney Morning Herald article here.

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